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...third overall in the World Cup standings, died in a freak training accident on the Pitztal glacier, near Innsbruck. During a joint French and German team-practice session, the 31-year-old Cavagnoud was speeding down the ice at around 65 km/h when she crashed into German coach Markus Anwander. Both sustained head injuries, and Cavagnoud went into cardiac arrest. Two days later she died. Germany's World combined champion Martina Ertl spoke for many of her fellow competitors when she said, "This is a brutal shock...
...when he suggested United might "perish" in the wake of Sept. 11. Goodwin has been replaced by John W. Creighton, former CEO of Weyerhaeuser. DIED. REGINE CAVAGNOUD, 31, world Super-G champion; in Innsbruck, Austria. The French skier died of injuries suffered when she collided with German national coach Markus Anwander during a downhill practice run (see Eulogy). DIED. GRIGORY CHUKHRAI, 80, celebrated Soviet-era filmmaker; in Moscow. A WW II veteran, his major films dealt with war, including Ballad of a Soldier, which won the 1960 Cannes award for best direction. DIED. THOMAS DURANT, 73, assistant director of Massachusetts...
...fought only with nukes, Kalashnikovs and proxies. It was waged through alliances such as asean and NATO, which raised the likely price of conflict and therefore deterred it. It was fought through the battle of ideas, through entities like Encounter magazine and Radio Free Europe. (In his autobiography, Markus Wolf, the former intelligence chief of East Germany, rated RFE as one of the West's most effective tools.) It was fought through economics: imposing higher costs of trade by limiting the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas, for example. It was fought through legislation, such as America...
...Markus: We used to have jobs like real people. All my advice is, pay your bills...
Kent's music is often marked by melancholy, like Radiohead or The Cure, but they played with such spirit as to make it equally life-affirming. The epic seven-minute-and-forty-seven-second "747" was a fitting song to close on. Markus Mustonen, the drummer, began the song by quietly patting away with brushes; by the end, he was driving an urgent rhythm with drumsticks. Sami Sirvio, the lead guitarist, broke a string about five minutes into "747," but his relentless playing never skipped a beat...